Crazy Presidential Elections

 Commentary magazine in September 2024: 

John Podhoretz gives a review of our crazy presidential elections. An excerpt:

But I would argue that nearly every presidential race in my lifetime—I’m 63, and so this is the 16th I’ve been alive for—was the most unprecedented in American history up to that moment. I can think of only three—1984, 1988, and 1996—that have followed relatively conventional patterns and whose outcomes viewed from a historical remove appear to have been set even before the candidates began to contest against each other.